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Jan. 9, 2024

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Judges skeptical of Trump’s immunity claim in election subversion case

Donald Trump is seen in a courtroom sketch, Jan. 9, 2024. REUTERS/Bill Hennessy

A Washington federal appeals court on Tuesday questioned Donald Trump‘s claims that he is immune from criminal charges for trying to overturn the 2020 election, as the former president warned he could prosecute Joe Biden if he returns to the White House.

Trump looked on as his legal team sought to convince a panel of three judges that former presidents should not be prosecuted for actions they took in office. Trump is due to go to trial in March on federal charges of election subversion. The judges reacted skeptically to that argument.

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Big banks tried to exclude states from a rate-rigging class action. They flopped, for now.

Bank of America and several other big banks named as defendants in a rate-rigging lawsuit asserted a radical theory last month that might have fundamentally altered class action litigation in federal court, especially in securities fraud cases involving state pension funds. The banks got a chilly reception for their 11th-hour theory, and they have only themselves to blame for asserting it late in the process. But Alison Frankel writes in her latest column that we probably haven’t seen the last of the bank theory that sovereign states cannot participate as absent class members in federal-court class actions. If the theory gains traction, Frankel says, the implications could be vast.

Check out other recent pieces from our columnists: Alison Frankel and Jenna Greene

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